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Something I love about the Sinners movie is it reminded me that some of the best stories are "one night" stories. There have been so many long con world ending save the universe humanity at stake the villain is the government stories for a while that I lost sight of one of my favorite stories- where some fuck shit goes down for One Day maybe One Week with a small crew of people Inextricably Familiar with each other and the end is like "ay that shit was crazy"

Thanks for the reminder Ryan Coogler

mysharona1987

shamebats

Post by @ erininthemorn (she/her).

kayla-denker

This shit made me cry. It's so fucking unheard of for people to stand up for us right now — let alone anyone with power, let alone a politician, let alone a cis man — that I am bawling my eyes out on my couch after watching this. God bless this man.

shamebats

I was expecting a simple statement of support, you know — the typical way politicians usually do that kind of stuff, not him actually going into trans history, honoring activists AND then offering up a concrete plan for improving trans people's material conditions in his city. His team did their homework.

We're too used to subsisting off of crumbs of support from public figures. More of this please.

writing-is-a-martial-art

truly some people have no genre savviness whatsoever. A girl came back from the dead the other day and fresh out of the grave she laughed and laughed and lay down on the grass nearby to watch the sky, dirt still under her nails. I asked her if she’s sad about anything and she asked me why she should be. I asked her if she’s perhaps worried she’s a shadow of who she used to be and she said that if she is a shadow she is a joyous one, and anyway whoever she was she is her, now, and that’s enough. I inquired about revenge, about unfinished business, about what had filled her with the incessant need to claw her way out from beneath but she just said she’s here to live. I told her about ghosts, about zombies, tried to explain to her how her options lie between horror and tragedy but she just said if those are the stories meant for her then she’ll make another one. I said “isn’t it terribly lonely how in your triumph over death nobody was here to greet you?” and she just looked at me funny and said “what do you mean? The whole world was here, waiting”. Some people, I tell you.

nevver

Desire path, Chaz Hutton

pocketsizedpanther

Yall be careful!

naamahdarling

"it's all fake looking ugly slop! Weird fingers! You can always tell!"

I need you to realize that literally none of these things are true, and that by continuing to believe them, you are making yourself gullible.

bermudarhombus1

Friendly reminder to check your child's Halloween candy this year, I just found an endless labyrinth of physically-impossible tunnels reflecting the descent into madness of multiple unreliable narrators, each with their own obsessive goal that they pursue to the point of harming themselves inside of a snickers bar

redstonedust

while i hope the AI boom dies out i also hope we start acknowledging data center water overconsumption as it's own unique issue because like. it's not AI itself that harms the environment it's the hardware hosting it, right? same reason nfts and cryptocurrency were also bad for the environment. the root problem isn't going away so long as we allow big companies to continue hitching their wagon to the next big tech trend. i worry if they don't get stronger regulation we'll just be repeating the same issue whenever the next toy comes along.

homunculus-argument

Just got a spam bot message in my inbox about needing donations for a child with "acute kidney failure and chronic autism". Like really. You're asking for money to fix autism on a website where nobody has money and everybody has autism. Chronic autism.

teaboot

I wanna meet the kid with sporadic, temporary autism

treecitysessions

toboldlynerd

dashiellqvverty

okay i know i JUST posted this and i had stuff to say in the tags but i forgot to add something which is that the comments specifically had MULTIPLE people saying "well what about Mychal the librarian*? can't i say HE'S wholesome?" and its like. did you even listen to a word Demi said, never mind process and internalize it?? he said when you talk like this it feels more like you are talking about a puppy than a human person and you said but what about this person whos content can OBJECTIVELY be described as wholesome? like that is not the fucking point!! the point is that it implies you are surprised and see it as something out of the ordinary when you view a black man as wholesome.

and putting these two conversations together actually really made it click for me just WHY i've been so put off by the way SO many people talk about Mychal. like idk maybe people WOULD also be saying this about a white guy who was doing what Mychal is doing. but when this kind of language is directed at white men i think its typically. visibly autistic or otherwise disabled white men. which is also infantilizing but i think is a slightly different issue, its a feeling of "i already see you as a child because of your disability, and i am going to talk to/about you as if you are one" whereas what Demi is talking about, and i think a lot of what is happening with the way people talk about Mychal and other black men, is the implication of "wow you wouldn't expect THIS guy to be WHOLESOME, right?"

the point isnt whether the content can technically be described as ~wholesome~ (which, yes, is a more accurate descriptor of Mychal's content than Demi's, and the specific nuances of the way people dehumanize them are different, but the SAME ISSUES OF RACISM ARE AT PLAY), the point is that people are chomping at the bit to point it out and talk about these black men as if they are curiosities and treat them like children, instead of adult human beings

*(if you arent familiar, Mychal Threets is a black tiktoker/creator who talks about being a librarian in videos that are very focused on positivity and a friendly and welcoming environment, and he was recently announced as the host of a reading rainbow reboot. hes great you should look him up)

mikanseinic

“how to recognize AI in fanfic” — hey so this is another not-gentle reminder that AI stole from us. it’s using OUR words and OUR sentences and OUR styles.

writing “long” paragraphs is not a sign of AI — it’s a common narrative choice many writers make both in fanfiction and in traditionally published novels, and AI stole it from us.

using an em dash is not a sign of AI. it’s a stylistic sentence choice that’s been an option in place of commas and semicolons for a very long time, and AI stole it from us.

long sentence structures are not a sign of AI, but are yet another stylistic choice writers often make to create a cadence and tone that mimics the flow of poetry, and AI stole it from us.

“YA narrative breaks”? i don’t even know what the fuck this means, but i can guarantee that AI stole it from us.

italics are once again a stylistic choice that many writers love to use to create emphasis, and it’s a more stylistically acceptable and traditional form of emphasis than bold or underline text. oh, and just to be extra clear: AI STOLE IT FROM US.

stop creating fandom witch hunts over AI when you know fuck all about what it means to sit and write a story, and to spend hours fiddling with sentence structure and dialogue to get the exact right tone. writers will stop writing out of fear that their work “sounds like AI” — IT DOESNT! AI STOLE FROM US! AI SOUNDS LIKE US! — and after a while, all that will be available on AO3 is shitty AI-generated fanfiction.

because yeah, people are going to continue to use AI to write fanfiction whether you “call them out” or not. but making a laughable thread on X that uses asinine criteria is not going to fix that problem. it will just push the real writers out because people will accuse them of using AI when they haven’t, and they will (rightfully) stop writing for spaces that attack them.

anyway. fuck ai.

xenosaurus

PLEASE look at my sister’s jack-o’-lantern, I am obsessed with him

draconym

Me: Fuck, the paper towels I want are on the top shelf.

The Sir David Attenborough That Lives In My Brain: Being smaller-than-average presents an added challenge to foraging ... but necessity is the mother of invention. A little creativity turns a baguette into a tool, and voilà--

(paper towel roll falls on my face)

Sir David Attenborough, pleasantly: Success.